Cherries, Peaches, and Hills, OH MY!

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KyushuCalanthe

Just call me Tom
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The bulk of the Prunus species and hybrids are just going out of flower now, but last weekend my girlfriend and I went to a local valley to see the cherries and ornamental peaches still in flower. Here they are. What a lovely time of year!

A large specimen of the famous Yoshino cherry, P. x yedoensis, backlit by the sun:

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And a hillside of the wild growing mountain cherry, P. jamasakura. Here you can see that as the trees go out of flower, the new bronze foliage shows clearly:

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Here is a scene in a small valley with a peaches, cherries, and mountain forests, both native and planted:

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An ornamental peach, P. persica, a Yoshino cherry, and the hillside beyond:

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Many of these peach varieties exist, but one of my favorites is this deep pink one. "It looks like candy!" - that's what my girlfriend always says:

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Ornamental peaches are not quite winter hardy here in the Chicago area. Otherwise I'd have planted a bunch of them. Truely beautiful scenery.
 

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